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Eli Bulli, Fat Duck, Noma Top S. Pellegrino World's Best Restaurants List
The S. Pellegrino World's 50 Best Restaurants 2009 list is out. The list is the result of a poll of over 800 restaurant experts - all well-travelled restaurant commentators, chefs or restaurateurs.
For the fourth year in a row Ferran Adria has topped our worldwide poll of 806 chefs, critics and other industry experts, whilst Heston Blumenthal's The Fat Duck retains second place. Below these perennial favourites however it's all change in the eighth annual listing of The S.Pellegrino World's 50 Best Restaurants.
Copenhagen's Noma restaurant with its youthful head chef Rene Redzepi ranks third, making an exciting addition to the world's greatest chefs trinity. Noma, which rises 7 places, also takes this year's Chef's Choice Award. After all of the votes had been counted and the top 50 restaurants established, the head chefs of these extraordinary establishments were asked to nominate the restaurant which they considered to be the best in the world. It is the ultimate honour Redzepi's peers can bestow.
Last year's Chef's Choice, Mugaritz, retains it's highest ever position at number 4, whilst another Spanish restaurant, El Celler de Can Roca, rises a staggering 21 places to the fifth place making it 2009's highest climber. With the eponymous restaurant Arzak in the 8th position, Spain can claim more restaurants at the very top echelons of the list than any other country.
Spain has four restaurants in the top ten including El Bulli, the #1 restaurant on the list. Here's the top ten:
- El Bulli, Spain
- The Fat Duck, UK
- Noma, Denmark
- Mugaritz, Spain
- El Celler de Can Roca, Spain
- Per Se, USA
- Bras, France
- Arzak, Spain
- Pierre Gagnaire, France
- Alinea, USA
You can see the Top 50 list here.
(via Luxist)
Posted on April 23, 2009
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The Fat Duck Reopens Following Mystery Illness
 Celebrity British Chef Heston Blumenthal's restaurant The Fat Duck has reopened for business in Bray, England. The restaurant's famous dishes that include snail porridge and salmon poached with liquorice can now be served again. The BBC reports that the British Health Protection Agency was unable to identify the source of the outbreak that reportedly sickened over 400 diners.
The council and the Health Protection Agency said "no one source has been identified" but it was "safe to open".
Some test results have yet to come back but the chef said he was "delighted".
"I am delighted the Health Protection Agency and the local environmental health office have given us the all clear to open the restaurant," he added.
Media coverage of the mystery illness has brought more attention to the restaurant and Chef Heston Blumenthal than ever before. The AP quotes Richard Harden, co-editor of Harden's restaurant guides as saying, "Heston Blumenthal is the only U.K. chef who is, on a worldwide level, of any interest as a chef. My hunch is the 'no such thing as bad publicity' aspect of this will outweigh any negative."
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Posted on March 12, 2009
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Hundreds Sick After Dining at Heston Blumenthal's Fat Duck Restaurant
 The Fat Duck is a famous restaurant in Bray, England run by Chef Heston Blumenthal. Blumenthal is the recipient of three Michelin stars and reservations for his restaurant typically need to be placed months in advance. The restaurant is currently closed because of an illness that has sickened 400 people that recently ate at the reknowned restaurant. The famous restaurant has a lot of celebritiy diners. The BBC reports that boxing promoter Frank Warren is one of the diners who later became ill.
Boxing promoter Frank Warren said he fell ill after eating at the restaurant with friends and would welcome an apology.
"I really [did] enjoy the experience of it all," he said.
"Heston's obviously a very talented guy, I watch his programmes and I hope he gets it sorted out.
"The people I was with, all of them are still suffering."
The HPA's Thames Valley Health Protection Unit is working with the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead's environmental health department to investigate the outbreak of vomiting and diarrhoea
Authorities have so far been unable to find the source of the illnesses. They have not found anything that would cause food poisoning. Health authority director Graham Bickler said, "This is a very complex outbreak. We are working closely with the restaurant."
The incident has been a financial setback for Chef Blumenthal. He has already had to cancel over 500 bookings. ABC News, The Independent and the New York Times also have stories about the vomiting bug that has struck The Fat Duck.
Posted on March 6, 2009
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